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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH OCTOBER, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 412.
The following Lot of Crown Land at Hunghòm, will be sold by Public Auction, on Monday, the 10th day of October, 1887, at 3 P.M.
Hunghòm Inland Lot No. 173.
For Particulars and Conditions of Sale see Governinent Notification No. 398 of the 1st instant.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th October, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 413.
The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of a Proclamation issued by Her Majesty the Queen, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th October, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
13th August, 1887.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the Colony under your Govern- ment, the accompanying copy of a Proclamation, issued by Her Majesty the Queen, by and with the advice of the Privy Council, respecting certain changes in the designs, &c., of the Gold and Silver Coins, and the issue of a new Silver Coin called the Double Florin.
I have to request that you will take steps to publish this Proclamation in the usual inanner in the Colony under your Government.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
H. T. HOLLAND.
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VICTORIA R.
By the QUEEN.
A PROCLAMATION.
THEREAS by an Act passed in the Thirty-third year of Our Reign intituled "An Act to consolidate..
and amend the Law relating to the Coinage and Her Majesty's Mint," it is amongst other things
enacted:
That We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, shall from time to time by Proclamation determine the design for any Coin: